“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”

“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”

“High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.”

“Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.”

“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”

“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”